Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
273256000 | Property or commodity transactions | 13 |
20080224397 | BOARD GAME FOR TEACHING PRINCIPLES OF ABUNDANCE - Disclosed is a highly interactive board game that teaches wealth building principles in the context of business, real estate, and other investments decisions, and that teaches self-improvement through character-strengthening exercises related to integrity, spirituality, cooperation and service to others. The game as disclosed includes four closed loop paths. The first three, inside paths represent the lives of the poor, the middle-class, and the rich. The three inside paths are circumscribed by a fourth closed loop path representing an abundant life of both wealth and happiness. Each of the loops is divided into game spaces which correspond to various game events. The game events include investment opportunities, changes in prevailing market conditions, and events and challenges related to personal growth and character development. Progress between the loops is a function of the player's decisions concerning both character-building and wealth related events. | 09-18-2008 |
20080237982 | Board Game about Principles of Democracy and Politics - A game apparatus and method for playing an educational and recreational game about principles of democracy and politics is disclosed. The game includes a board, member certificates as well as a first set of cards about key aspects necessary for the function of a democratic society, which bear instructions to be enacted by the players and a second set of cards elated to spaces in which players will create political organizations and support democracy pillars, these cards also bear specific instructions to be enacted by the players. The game includes moving a player piece along a path of movement on the game board. A booklet including topical questions for educational purpose may also be provided. | 10-02-2008 |
20080290599 | WEALTH DEVELOPMENT GAME - A board game is configured for learning and practicing principles of wealth development. The board game broadly includes, among other things, a game board, game tokens for tracking player movement during the game, activity cards that players draw in response to landing on board spaces, and a worksheet for tracking various financial metrics used for playing the game and for determining the winner. Each of the board spaces are associated with one or more wealth-building activity categories and direct the players to follow instructions that correspond with the respective categories. The worksheet includes sections for tracking financial metrics such as the player's income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and net worth. | 11-27-2008 |
20090102124 | BOARD GAME SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a system for use with a board game including a board, mock currency, and one or more tokens. The system includes a plurality of liability cards allowing players of the board game to assume an amount of liability less than or equal to a liability limit and including a liability balance, as well as a tracking system for monitoring the liability assumed by each of the players. During play of the board game, the players can upgrade from one liability card to another upon meeting predetermined criteria. Additionally, the present disclosure relates to a board game itself that includes a board, one or more tokens movable relative to the board, and the aforementioned plurality of liability cards. | 04-23-2009 |
20090236801 | BUSINESS GAME APPARATUS - A business game apparatus based on Islamic values comprising a playing board ( | 09-24-2009 |
20100019452 | Commodity Board Game - A commodity board game teaches reducing risk by accumulating indicators that support the direction of the trade. The more indicators accumulated to support a trade, the less risk the player has in making a profit, which is similar to real-life commodity trading. The board game includes a board with a peripheral track marked with spaces for beginning, indicators, advice/payments, entry into contracts, exit techniques, contract, rest or marathon for charity and vacation; a board center; and a plurality of places for cards to be drawn, comprising entry, contract, indicator and advice/payments; a plurality of types of cards that include entry cards that represent the entry technique and expected market movement; indicator cards comprising a plurality of different groups, but all showing an up or down arrow and a representation for significance weighting; and advice/payment cards comprising teachings and market news, the teachings involving receipt or payment of money and market news affecting any player in a trade; at least two numbered dice; a market die comprising six faces, each indicating a different market; a plurality of game pieces for marking a player's progress around the board; a plurality of protective stop chips for a player to lessen a loss; a billboard plaque showing the standard amounts for trades in the different commodities and the parameters for ending trades; a plurality of money of different amounts; and instructions on how to play the game. | 01-28-2010 |
20110018199 | DEATH AND TAXES BOARD GAME AND APPARATUS - A board game with a continuous track separated into discreet steps uses a random number device to determine an advancement of players' tokens. Designated game events reflect life occurrences and choices. A monetary currency is gained and lost. A second, non-monetary, currency is also gained and lost. That second currency is representative of a player's health status and is not freely exchangeable with any pecuniary currency. While a pecuniary currency is useful in securing the health representative currency, in scoring and in determining winners and losers only the health related currency is determinative. | 01-27-2011 |
20110057389 | FINANCIAL BOARD GAME - A financial board game for use with a targeted population subset, typically including at least one child, is disclosed. The board game includes a board indicating at least one path including a plurality of spaces, wherein each space represents a single playing piece step, wherein each space corresponds to at least one color of a plurality of colors, a plurality of cards, wherein each card specifies at least one financially related question, each of the plurality of cards corresponding to at least one color of the plurality of colors, a plurality of pieces, wherein each pieces represents a player or a plurality of players, each of the plurality of pieces corresponding to at least one color of the plurality of colors, each of the plurality of pieces corresponding to the color of the start position, and a dice or die to generate random criteria for advancing each of the plurality of pieces. | 03-10-2011 |
20110221130 | Political and economic trivia board game - A trivia game and a method for two or more players playing a trivia game is provided. The method includes selecting one of a plurality of trivia cards and performing one of a plurality of predetermined tasks associated with the selected one of the plurality of trivia cards. The plurality of trivia cards includes two or more sets of trivia cards and each of the two or more sets of trivia cards includes trivia cards of only one of at least two types of trivia cards, one of the plurality of predetermined tasks being associated with each of the two or more sets of trivia cards. The one of the plurality of predetermined tasks associated with the one of the two or more sets of trivia cards of the selected one of the plurality of trivia cards is performed in accordance with the associated one of the at least two types of trivia cards. Performing the one of the plurality of predetermined tasks includes one or more players responding to a trivia question associated with the selected one of the plurality of trivia cards. | 09-15-2011 |
20110285085 | Trading Game Simulation Method - A trading simulation game that emulates the roles of market makers and traders involved in the securities market. The simulation allows for random market activity by specifying a starting market price and employing a subset of a pool of market-affecting items to modify the starting price and determine the final game price. Items in the subset are incrementally revealed to simulation participants during play, and designated participants may make the first offer to trade. All participants simultaneously make and accept offers to buy and sell the simulated security without restriction, based on the public and private information they have and their dynamic estimates of the final game price. Trades are tracked with a novel tally sheet or game status board, and they are settled at the final game price when all items are revealed. The use of a subset of a pool of market-affecting items allows for probability-based strategy similar to popular card games like blackjack and poker. | 11-24-2011 |
20130341865 | BOARD GAME FOR DRUG DEALING SENSITIVITY - A board game for drug dealing sensitivity, which includes a playing board, a pair of dice, a plurality of chips/cards, and a plurality of playing pieces. The playing board has a path thereon. The path of the playing board is in a generally | 12-26-2013 |
20140125011 | PUBLIC SPIRITED BOARD GAME - A game comprising: a board, game pieces, money, game cards, assets, charitable objects, dice and rules, the game so constructed and arranged that acquisition of the assets must be balanced by contribution to a community in order to win the game. | 05-08-2014 |
20140265121 | Consumer Game - Methods for implementing a consumer game are provided that include: distributing at a retail location a game board and at least one game ticket, that includes at least one game marker, where the game board includes a plurality of sets of locations, each set corresponding to one of a plurality of different games, a first of the plurality of game includes a plurality of locations for collecting a set non-duplicate game markers, and a second of a plurality of games includes a plurality of locations for collecting a set of duplicate game markers; distributing at the retail location at least one other game ticket, that includes at least one other game marker; and distributing a prize in response to receiving a set of duplicate game markers collected in accordance with the second of the plurality of games. | 09-18-2014 |